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Lower Mississippi Valley yellow fever epidemic of 1878, a Common card
In 1878, a severe yellow fever epidemic swept through the lower Mississippi Valley.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 45
- Power
- 108
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 10,000
Power 108 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- More than 74,000 cases and nearly 16,000 deaths across Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
- During the American Civil War, Union army troops in New Orleans feared that there would be an outbreak of yellow fever in the occupied city, and reacted by introducing sanitation and quarantine procedures in 1862.
- In 1877, the United States federal government pulled the federal troops out of New Orleans, directly causing a relaxation in the city's sanitation policies.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lower Mississippi Valley yellow fever epidemic of 1878 article was read about 10,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 45: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Lower Mississippi Valley yellow fever epidemic of 1878 (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Moise, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.


